About Max
Dr. Max Sturdivant uses clear, evidence-based approaches to help people face stressful life changes and painful emotions. He is a licensed professional clinical counselor with six years of experience in Kentucky.
He focuses on relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief and depression, and struggles with addiction. He aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supported. He creates a calm space where people can speak honestly about what they are feeling.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps, learning coping skills, and identifying patterns that hold someone back. The work is collaborative - the person sets priorities and Dr. Sturdivant helps turn them into doable goals.
He also addresses aging and geriatric concerns, blended family issues, body image, communication problems, and the emotional fallout from disasters. Other areas he helps with include divorce and separation, first responder stress, guilt and shame, isolation, and life purpose questions. He tailors the conversation to the specific concern rather than using one fixed method.
Dr. Sturdivant supports people coping with hospice and end-of-life matters and with disruptive mood concerns such as Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder. He offers straightforward guidance during transitional seasons like midlife and parenthood adjustments.
His background helps him combine empathy with practical tools. He works in English and accepts international clients. Sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to allow people to choose what fits their schedule and communication style.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Dr. Sturdivant emphasizes practical, evidence-based techniques that focus on changing patterns and building skills. One approach emphasizes coping skills and behavioral changes to reduce depressive symptoms and manage cravings for people dealing with addictions. This helps by breaking problems into small, manageable steps and creating regular habits.Another common focus is trauma-informed work that helps people process painful events and learn calming strategies. This approach pairs emotional processing with tools for reducing anxiety and improving sleep and daily functioning.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Over a few sessions they will adjust methods to find what fits best for the person’s needs.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations with visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text work well for brief updates, daily coping check-ins, or when messaging feels more comfortable. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or travel schedules and let people choose the way they communicate most effectively.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English